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end up doing just fine with no consequences at all? will january 6th, 2021 be remembered as only the beginning? thanks for spending your sunday morning with us. the news continues next. ♪ this is cnn breaking news. hello and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world i'm coming to you live from cnn headquarters in atlanta and we begin with breaking news. democrats in the u.s. house are hours away from taking action against donald trump for last week rio de janeiroot rio de janei to remove the president from office using the 25th amendment. if he doesn't do that a unprecedented second impeachment
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is on the horizon though that process could take some time from start to finish one house democratic leader says they may want to wait to send the articles of impeachment to the senate to give joe biden time to tackle his agenda in his first 100 days. >> house speaker nancy pelosi is ready to move forward forward with impeachment, that if mike pence doesn't move forward with the 25th amendment. she said she will introduce a resolution monday morning to give mike pence on the clock. to give him 24 hours to decide whether or not he will step forward on 25th amendment if not the house will begin proceedings as early as wednesday and there's enough votes to get it passed in the house, question is
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the senate, doesn't appear to be an appetite for senate majority leader mitch mcconnell to get a trial and convict president trump especially before he leaves office now in less than ten days. the question is what does pelosi do after those articles of impeachment are passed, she could send them to mitch mcconnell to hold them or wait until donald trump is out of the office and when democratics control the senate and begin then. there's benefits moving forward even after president trump is out of the office. there's long-term consequences president trump could be in store for if he is ultimately convicted of those impeachment proceedings. still a lot we don't know. only thing we know for sure is speaker pelosi is ready to take the first step doing something to hold president trump accountable in his role in the riots that took place last wednesdays. cnn, capitol hill.
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>> now there are some republicans calling for the president's removement or resignation among them the senator of pennsylvania who says president trump should resign and that he could face legal charges. >> i think the president has disqualified himself from serving in office again. i don't think he's electable in anyway and i don't think he will exercise any kind of influence he's had over the republican party going forward. >> not with only days left of the trump presidency other republicans want to let the clock run out on his time in office. 123rz is -- >> one of my problems is pour pureeing gas on --
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i risked my life to certify the electoral college. people were threatening us, i was accosted in the street. i worry if the impeachment article passes with simple majority in the house. it needs two-thirds in senate, doesn't get to the senate until 19th of january, day before joe biden is sworn into this office and for unity in country we need to be thoughtful and careful how do we insure there's a peaceful transition of power, that the inauguration goes smoothly so that we can get a fresh start on january 20th. . my personal view is the president touched the hot stove and is unfortunate likely to touch it again. that's the case, every day closer to his last presidency we should by thinking of the first day of the next presidency than the last day of his presidency, in my view. >> jessica
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a law professor in loyola law school in los angeles. good to see you professor. so advisors recommending other solutions to punish donald trump without hi jacking the first hundred days of joe biden's presidency is understandable but what are the moral risks. >> the moral risk is if we engage in this type of behavior than you can be removed than those constitutional provisions need to mean something. the risk is silence becomes acceptance and we say that's okay. i don't think -- we're talking about the kind of society we want to design and live in. . yeah. if you don't impeach, as you say, there is the risk of looking like you're letting the president actually slide, but is there, this is your field, is
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there a legal risk of the argument already being made that you can't impeach a former president and might end up going nowhere in terms of once he's out of office. >> so you heard me say this before but this is something we haven't tested. we voenl luckily impeached we only have luckily impeached one in situation such as this. having said that, the constitution does allow for it. the benefit would be as par the of a potential conviction you can say to the president you can never run for office again, to eliminate his ability to tell supporters he's running and to use the campaign finance system to raise money for his benefit. so there are real benefits and i think the constitution does allow for it. >> to put your political hat
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back on it's extraordinary we haven't seen a single white house news conference after an attempted insurrection, no homeland security briefing, no fbi d.o.j. cabinet department heads, no one, nothing, where is the government on what happened and what could be yet to happen. >> it's extraordinary. i mean, this is darkness, the lack of information we have about something that happened, again, remember, in the people's house. the people's house was under attack and remember reports of representatives cowering in place, praying, using chairs to protect themselves. this is not something that happened in a private cooperation, again, all incited by the president of the united states. we don't know -- and the information wasn't out there for a long time about what happened to the people who passed away. think about this terrible example, a police shooting, where we have information very,
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very quickly. and we haven't had that and a lot of people are worried about what's go to happen in the next few days and i know there's been chatter about how to appropriately protect the inauguration. >> donald trump will continue to hold sway over his hard-core base but do you think he can possibly still have the hold on the broader republican party as his term comes to an end this way? >> this is the question going forward. about 74 million people voted for him. probably 35 to 40 really believe all the lies, conspiracy theories and falsehoods. the question is what happens in the next month, year, two years, what happens to the republican party? do they say now he's out of office. i'm no longer worried about being primaried, i'm no longer worried so much about a mean tweet that i'm going to go back to telling the american people
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what is actually reality, what is actually the law. there's a real question about wlrn the republican party has so much institutional weakness that donald trump can again capture that. i don't know the answer to that. i wish i did. i suspect for a lot of people who tolerated him this was the last straw. >> always great to talk to you, jessica, from los angeles. >> thank you. >> well we are learning new details about the violence that unfolded at the u.s. capitol on wednesday. new video obtained by cnn showing a police officer being brutally assaulted by rioters as they stormed the building, warning, this video is disturbing but it is important to show.
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and you can see that mob pulling the officer to the ground, drag him down the stairs by his helmet and then beat him as he laid there helplessly. somebody even hitting the officer with a pole that has the american flag on it. cnn has reached out for more information on this particular assault as well as that officer's condition. and authorities are of course still trying to identify many of the rioters involved in the attack. now more on what police are doing to prevent more violence. >> reporter: there's a lot of concern as we move into a new week and klosser to the inauguration in the wake of the attack on the capitol, now surrounded by seven foot fence and hundreds of guard members will be sent in next wednesday including 1,000 from new york, 6200 from across the country. so far, nearly two dozen people
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have been charged federally for their involvement? the violent move including a man with 11 homemade bombs a handgun and rifle. prosecutors say he had two handguns often him when police found him. and another man charged with sending text messages threatening injury to house speaker nancy pelosi. he had assault rifle and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in a truck that was parked outside the holiday inn in washington. hundreds of people may now end up you if under arrests the investigation continues that has hundreds of prosecutors and fbi agent from three command centers 24/7. there's growing concern for safety of members in congress,
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many who were yelled at, surround in airports traveling to and from washington. this weekend all members will get increased security traveling through airports, u.s. capitol police are coordinating with law enforcement agencies to keep those members of congress safe. jessica schneider, cnn, washington. president trump has finally ordered half staff flags for two fallen officers who were on duty during the riots, all flags will remain lower until january 13th. this move comes days after the police announced the death of the officer brian sicknick who passed away from injuries he sustained during the insurrection. on sunday a funeral procession was held in his honor, police in washington saluting as the hearst passed by, they
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remembered him as a friend on the force for more than 12 years, and the cause of death of the other officer is unclear, much later on this in the program. shall i put her in snow mode? nope! what about off-road mode? nah. sport mode it is. let's see what this baby can do. or... we could check out that farmers market? no! you know what? i'll be in chill mode... (button click) if anyone needs me. propilot assist with navi-link. available on the all-new nissan rogue. without the commission fees so you can start investing today, wherever you are - even hanging with your dog. so, what are you waiting for? download now and get your first stock on us. robinhood.
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there are now more than 90 million coronavirus cases around the world but there is hope, of course, in the form of vaccines for those nations who have access to them. in the u.s. where the pandemic is raging more than 22 million doses have now been distributed but only 6.6 million have been actually administered. one former u.s. official says the u.s. vaccine strategy is failing and it's time to try something new. >> the game has changed on the vaccine. we really need to get this vaccine out more quickly because this is really our only tool against the spread of the new variants. we get a lot of people vaccinated quickly might get enough protected immunity into the population and get it to stop spreading as much as it is
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so we need to acknowledge it's not working and hit the reset to get it out to patients. >> dr. robert kim fowley is a professor at the school of public health joins me now from los angeles. thanks for doing so, professor. when it comes to distribution, getting vaccines into arms, where are the bottlenecks and how can they be overcome? >> firstly, michael, thank you for having me on your program. well, i think we did an amazing job getting the vaccines developed at warped speed but at this time in terms of distribution a "warped" speed in the sense there's been a number of glitches. firstly, there's a situation over-promising and under-performing that 20 million doses into arms was probably aspiration alibi the end of december. there's a number of things
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showing problems with the infrastructure to deliver that many doses in that amount of time. many persons to deliver the doses are crushed with the overwhelming number of covid cases they're trying to care for. we also were holding back the second dose for a while. i think there's new policies that will get more of the first doses out and recognizing the manufacturers will continue to make vaccines, if not, even speeding up the manufacturing, so we don't have to hold back the second doses. >> this is the thing 22 million distributed, 6.6 million actually going into arms, there's a problem with coordination and actually getting the end result. you tufrped on this. -- you touched on this, what do you think of the mcbribiden plan to release most doses and not hold out do you think it is a good idea?
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>> i think it's a good idea, first off, it will get more vaccines into people's arm to open the pathway to get more out into people. secondly, it's not as ideal as having two doses with 95% protecti protection, even one dose will provide some protection. that's good news. and because manufacturers will continue to ramp production we shouldn't have problem getting doses to people when it's timely to do so. >> on the virus, the capitol riot was many things but also might have been a superspreader event, the capitol attending physician has warned lawmakers and staffers about the potential exposure following that, i mean, there were a lot of people running around yelling with no masks. >> exactly, correct. these are the events properly called super spreading events, in that, they are people close
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together, not wearing masks, and in this case indoors. those are all the set up for being able to have covid transmission. >> the vaccines are obviously a game-changer but is it fair to say the game is still maybe at halftime, i mean, still 4,000-odd people a day are dieing in the u.s. alone, people are getting used to that staggering number. how are you concerned about the weeks, even months, to come. >> yes, think we have to recognize that we really are not in a wave or a surge or even a surge upon a surge this really is a viral zunino zunino is a vier tsunami washing across the nation. i think the number of cases will increase after the new year's events that happened, and
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incubation period of the disease is about two weeks, so that's going to happen, towards the end of january we'll see peak hospitalizations, one or two weeks after coming down with the disease will be serious enough getting into the hospital and you'll find mid-february we'll be peaking in the number of be peeking in the number of deaths because it will be number of time before people in the hospital actually die. >> that's terrifying, already icu's are over flowing in many places. >> there is some life in sense that i think in reality come the end of january we actually should see some decreases in cases happening, at least plateauing off because we don't have the amplifying effect of the back-to-back seasons, halloween, thanksgiving, hanukkah, christmas, new years, i think people won't be traveling as much and those
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people who weren't following public health guidance not traveling some of them actually came down with disease and have some immunity themselves before getting the vaccine. >> we'll take the silver lining, dr. robert kim fowley in l.a. thank you so much appreciate it. >> my pleasure, michael. china is promising to provide vaccines through african nations and other developing countries who haven't been able to secure many doses. now a look at how beijing is attempting to use vaccine to bolster its political ties with nations. >> reporter: africa first. despite a raging pandemic. china's top diplomat continued a long-held tradition of making the continent it's first port of call in the new year. and because of a raging pandemic many african nations need help. the democratic republic of congo
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announced china grant the debt release and nigeria and pledged to help in economic development and pandemic response. and before -- pledging to reign in the virus. >> china has called for global cooperation since the start and worked with other countries to fight the pandemic. >> in may the president xi jinping planned to make vaccines global public good agreeing across africa and asia priority access to its vaccines and plans to send hundreds of millions of doses to a long list of country that's conducted last-stage trials including brazil and indonesia. >> it's called vaccine diplomacy a soft power play by china to reshape and repair its image
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damaged by its mishandling by the outbreak. >> they want to improve china's image and second expand market share of the chinese vaccines and third they want to use the vaccine as a strategic tool especially in countries where china has interest. >> the term doesn't sit well with china. state media rejects the notion vaccines are a bargaining chip. they do have advantages, they don't require ultra-low temperature for storage making shipping easier. they may have efficacy rates lower than pfizer but higher than astrazeneca. it's not as easy as a shot in the arm. no
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123rz efficacy data released. they are a life-saver. rich countries have purchased enough covid-19 doses to immuneize population three times over. in 67 poor nations including nigeria only 1 in 10 can hope to be vaccinated by the end of the year. according to watch dog group. having largely contain the virus at home china can focus on those very countries with a chance to restore its reputation and position itself as the solution to rather than the cause of the pandemic. cnn, hong kong. and next hour i'll be speaking with tom boykey the direct of global health council on foreign relations, he's got interesting things to say about what should be happening globally and not leaving other
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countries behind. well, the u.s. house is ready to take action against president trump, what house democrats plan to do to remove mr. trump from office just before his term ends, we'll have that when we come back.
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and welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world, you're watching cnn news room, thanks for doing so. in the coming hours the u.s. house is expected to urge mike pence to invoke the 25th amendment to declare president trump incapable of fulfilling the duties of his office, if the
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vice president doesn't act within 24 hours, house speaker nancy pelosi says she will move ahead with an unprecedented second impeachment of the president. a new poll shows the majority of the americans believe mr. trump should be removed before his term ends in just ten days. two-thirds of americans believes the president shares blame for the riots. president trump is continuing to face backlash from corporate america, meanwhile, stripe says it will no longer process campaign donations for him. twitter and facebook have stripped him of his social media profiles. now with the latest. >> reporter: corporate america is taking dramatic action against president trump in his campaign, many technology platforms basically disassociating themselves from trump over the weekend. we've seen an avalanche of these announcements, friday, saturday, into sunday.
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and the end result of all of it is that the president is increasingly isolated. his platforms are shrinking, shrinking, shrinking. we've seen no e-mails from trump campaign since wednesday. up until wednesday were e-mailing rorpters many times a day. one reason the e-mails may have stopped is because the campaign is having a very hard time accepting donations. we learned that stripe, a payment company that processes credit cards, has halts its service with the trump campaign. long story short, trump can no longer accept donations via stripe. trump is being isolated by corpse america and some
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businesses are taking swifter, stronger action than government entities like the house or senate, for example. it's clear cooperate america in all its ways is make a statement trying ing ting to distance it hate speech and incitement of violence. this will pose serious problem for trump not just in the next nine or ten days but also in his post-presidency, any plans for launching new businesses, any plans for months or years down the road could be in peril now that he's been deplatformed by twitter and facebook and lots of smaller companies as well. back to you. >> now thanks to brian stelter there. we're going to take a quick break. when we come back a look at how america's dem and val sues america's democracy and values at capella unive prevail despite the violence at the capitol on wednesday.
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now, it goes without saying, the scenes of violence we witnessed at the u.s. capitol on wednesday were extraordinary, yet, america woke up the next day to relative order, not fallout, cnn looks at how the day's event under scores the strengths and flaws of the american system. >> reporter: i argue in a piece on cnn digital that there were many similarities here between the violent, ugly scenes of rioting, frankly, that forged their way into the u.s. capitol on wednesday, there's also key differences, frankly, in how the united states reacted it to that situation. in so many of the attempted coups we've seen around the world there's the next morning sense of uncertainty, fear
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perhaps, that something has changed in the fabric of the country, perhaps the president hiding or more bullish, or on state tv you might see propaganda or an abyss opening up. what was extraordinary was to see how the system simply picked up again in the united states. vision of cable news channels reporting the events, openly, dissecting them. other branches of government, of congress, the democratic opposition, standing up, expressing their fury about what had happened. the capacity, frankly, for people to do that openly is something that's extraordinarily rare around the world, particularly after attempted coups and certainly i think some of the language used around that reflects how extraordinarily surprised americas were to see this, there had been multiple
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warnings but no sight like that. the thing to remember, that will be urged on by those who have survived under tyranny that the u.s. system did fail yes it has flaws to get that to point where five people lost their lives, important to remember that, but still, there were parts of democracy that kicked into action, there was law, there was order, the rioters when they got into the buildings didn't get what they went for. they were stopped by brave police officers. they were prevented from achieving whatever it was in fact their goals had indeed been. swiftly, afterwards, finally the pentagon moved into action, other law enforcement as well. it's important to americans who perhaps look at those scenes and think gosh what is happening to our democracy, is the fabric of our system falling apart to remember it isn't.
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and to remember there are many around the world who been through similar unrest and seen coups and look at how america recovered quite so fast, it had law and order, and guard rails and filled with possibly jealousy to some degree, yes american has deeply flawed system where extremists might have too much of a voice but important to remember how much order was there and how much fairness to those who sought justice and how that may hold america in a better position as it navigates the complicated, nightmarish environment in the weeks ahead. cnn london. the u.s. plans to yemen terrorist groups pompeo says the move will
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sir, how likely is impeachment to your agenda? >> u.s. president-elect joe biden refusing to answer how the potential impeachment of donald trump would effect the start of his own administration. biden has a lot planned for his first 100 days in office and an impeachment vote continuity impeachment vote could interfere with that. >> reporter: a busy week ahead for president-elect joe biden.
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with much focus on congress holding donald trump accountable for inciting violence on the capitol, biden's agenda is protecting people from covid, -- just like in december, biden will receive his second dose publicly to instill confidence in the vaccines safety and efficacy and on thursday biden will lay out what he wants to see in the next covid relief package, things that $2,000 economic relief senate majority leader mitch mcconnell blocked, but that senate is hoping to push through in democratic-controlled senate and biden pointing to paid sick leave as critical tool to stopping the spread of coronavirus. thousands lost their paid sick lead after congress failed to extend them in that relief package. and biden will announce whether
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everyone can receive both necessary doses and says vaccines give us hope but the roll out has been a travesty. cnn delaware with his days in office now dwindling, donald trump has a lot more golf to look forward to, of course, but one of his golf courses is losing a major event. the pga is cancelling plans to play next year's prestigious championship at the trump national golf club in bedminister, new jersey, where donald trump plays a lot. that decision came after last week's riot at the u.s. capitol. trump administration says it's breach of binding terminate they have no right to terminate. >> reporter: president trump over the last two months has lost the right to be president. >> i think the president did
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commit impeachment offenses, little doubt about that. >> i absolutely believe impeachment should be scheduled. >> this president should be impeached and removed and . donald trump presents a clear and present danger to 9 health and safety of the american people and our democracy. >> you heard calls of donald trump to be removed from congress growing even among some republicans in congress, all from the fall out of the riot that took place on capitol hill on wednesday, outrageous scenes, five people have died as a result of the events that occurred that day. many questions still remain about what took so long to get help to the capitol? maryland governor larry hogan spoke to cnn about the steps that were taken to does he -- deploy his national guard.
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>> within minutes of this attack i called a security team together, specially trained police rapid response team and 500 members of the national guard. i can't speed to what was going on at the pentagon or in the white house, i can tell you, i was in the middle of a meeting when my chief of staff said the capitol was under attack. we were in contact with the mayor's office who requested assistant and we immediately sent the national guard. for it's tricky one governor could send his national guard to help another but in d.c. only the defense department can do that so our guard mobilized and was ready but we couldn't full actually cross the board into d.c. without the okay. that was quite some time. we kept running it up, our general talking to the national guard general and eventually got a call from ryan mccarthy,
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secretary of the army, asking if we could come into the city but we had already had our police there and guard mobilized and were just waiting for that call. >> many, many questions still unanswered about what happened in terms of the security posture. meanwhile, one of georgia's newly elected senators is delivering a message of hope after last week's chaos in washington, warnock returning to the pulpit for the first time since winning the race. he shared what the victory means for him and for the state of georgia and the country as a whole. >> as a teenager growing up in wake cross, georgia, my mom used to pick somebody else's cotton but the other day she went to the polls and picked her youngest son to be a united states senator. that's a glimpse of god's glory. a glimpse of god's justice.
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the arc being bent a little bit closer to justice in the world. it is here and at hand. emergence of human possibility and god's dream that embraces all of us. the kingdom of heaven, jesus says, is here. but it suffers violence. we witness that tension in such a powerful and such a tragic way. here in the wee hours tuesday night into wednesday morning, georgia had elected its first black senator and its first jewish senator, and then as we were basking in the glory of all that that represented seemed like we could only have a few hours
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to celebrate, just as we were trying to put on our celebration shoes the ugly side of our story our great and grand american story began to emerge as we saw the crude and the angry and the disrespect. and the violent. break their way into the people's house. >> well, in the days leading up to reverend's warnock's win many people criticized president trump for pressuring georgia's secretary of state to over turn the election, a republican by the way, stood strong, he followed the law. cnn's amber walker sat with him to talk about the attack on the u.s. captained the president's a -- u.s. capitol and the president's attack on him. >> things have gone too far. >> reporter: for two long months georgia secretary of state brad
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endured standing in the line of trump's baseless attacks. >> he's annen them yip of the people . >> jimmy: he's an . >> reporter: and then trump's reckless lies of a rigged election culminated with this -- >> people have been misrepresented for two months about the election results. spreading disinformation. saying whatever they wanted on social media. and there were consequences and we saw what those consequences were yesterday. >> when you say people, specifically, we're talking about president trump, he was at the elips. >> we're going to walk down to the capitol. >> as we all know right before the riots broke out, telling his supporters to walk on the capitol. this was incited by the president. . do you blame president trump? and what would you say to him? >> obviously that's why i've said from day one that we have to be really mindful of our spin
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because we can't spin people up and play people and get them into an emotional frenzy state. deal with the facts. the facts are on our side. we had fair and honest elections in georgia. >> did he betray our country? >> you have to recognize when you hold a high office you are called to call people up to a higher standard of behavior. maybe you don't like an answer or result but you never want to go down the road of violence. at the end of the day that lady lost her life. i lost my oldest son so i know what her parents are going through, the grief they're having, it seems so needless. >> and it seems this was the last straw for brad who just last month still declared himself a trump supporters. >> you still support donald trump. >> yeah i wish he would have won. >> now he admits things have changed. >> do you regret that vote?
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>> the actions he's taken since then were not what you expect from a president. when something like this happens his accomplishments really get negated. they get obscured. and you actually go out with a black mark on your record and it's a shame it had to come to that. it's also a shame many people, elected political leaders in the republican party didn't have the courage to stand and say mr. president, here's what the real numbers are. i believe the real numbers. >> he still does have a grip on the party, clearly, and he still has a grip on his supporters. >> i think after today there will be reevaluation of a lot of things. . including how two republican senators lost their seats to democrats making warnock and ossoff the first democratics to win senate seats in georgia in 20 years. >> president trump really hurt the republican party on the
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senator run offs. getting involved in that. they focused on their races would have done well but they came up short. he filled up stadiums. i get that. but end of the day you get to fill up the ballot box with your vote. the other side in this race did a better job than we did as republicans. >> his party may have lost but he trusts democracy will prevail as it did in georgia. through the chaos he hasn't lost his sense of humor and credits his wife and sons for keeping him grounded. >> they're real proud. they have some fun with it at times but they're real proud. they gave me a beautiful framed picture, it was the luck article of people in a boxing ring and you was the referee. it was that whimsical humor we had a good laugh over it.
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it's good, it keeps me humble, it keeps me real. >> they see you as a referee, is that how you see yourself? >> in this job, yes. and the players learn their job is to win the game, it's not up to the referee to make one call or another so you can score a touchdown. play the game fair and go out and play your guts out. leave it all on the field. >> amber walker there. i'm michael holmes back with more news in a moment.
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